'America will never leave Iraq', US solider says

[bemildred]

Some interesting bits, this fellow exhibits severe cognitive disconnect, which is no surprise.

"America is never going to leave Iraq," he claims. "We're building permanent bases out there now."

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"When a guy gets his head blown off, it's his best friends' job to carry him away," he says.

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"I don't like Bush. He has three things on his mind - oil, money and daddy's war," he says. Patrick is equally damning about John Kerry.

"Kerry is a bad man. He was all for Iraq before it went sour. I voted for him, but only because he wasn't George Bush. He was the best of a bad lot."

Great reporter

[Demeter]

1. I'd Say Our Days In Iraq Are Numbered

and not in months, either.

"I canna' hold 'er any longer, Captain! She's gonna blow!"

[mpendragon]

2. we'll abandon the cities to ruin but we'll have a base there

and no one will leave that base unless absolutely necessary.

[crikkett]

3. a base complete w/ McDonald's. n/t

[wli]

4. I don't see a cognitive disconnect per se

The "Kerry is a bad man" thing is interesting; "all for Iraq before it went sour."

[bemildred]

7. Not a psychiatric diagnosis.

But he certainly has a few conflicts.

[wli]

8. I was thinking it could be blaming Kerry for being semi-hawkish

I can't be sure, though.

[bemildred]

10. That part seems clear enough. You can find the same sentiment here.

There are quite a few in the political class that think that foreign interventions in general and the Iraq war in particular are good things, if done "right", and that the problem is that Bush fucked it up. Kerry has said as much publicly. There are other that think we should leave other countries the hell alone, mind our own business, and so on. This fellow seems to have chosen that latter.

[Desperadoe]

5. US solider says

"Kerry is a bad man. He was all for Iraq before it went sour. I voted for him, but only because he wasn't George Bush. He was the best of a bad lot."


I think this soldier just told us why we keep losing elections. It really isn't all that hard to understand. The ones that didn't vote for Kerry and still felt like this, they figured they may as well vote for Bush.

[Larkspur]

6. Yep and Hillary and the DLC clowns following in Kerry's wake won't

change our situation in Iraq.

I think we will eventually be forced out by a combo of Baath Party-Sunni insurgency and Shiite/Iranian revolt against our presence there. It's just a matter of time.

Our military recruitment is at an all time low and that along with our exploding deficit makes our departure from Iraq inevitable. How are pro-war Hillary and the DLC warmongers going to resolve that decline? Reinstate the Draft? I don't see Hillary leading by example which would be sacrificing Chelsea to the military and her war god in Iraq.

[SeanQuinn]

9. Lovely. Why don't ya just draft me now?

Not good news at all.